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Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: Donald R Campbell (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: March 16, 2021 05:30PM

I had a customer bring by an older G. Loomis NRX casting rod by with cracked epoxy on a couple of guides. Can anyone help me out with the thread they used to wrap the NRX guides? The newer NRX has a light blue thread; but these are wrapped with a blue-green thread. i thought I found a close match with some Fish Hawk thread and re-wrapped the two guides. The only major problem was the Fish Hawk threads was not color fast and I didn't put on any color preserver before applying the epoxy! You guess it .... it turned totally dark and now I am faced with a redo! Bummer. I tried contacting G. Loomis / Shamano and the hold time is outrageous ..."due to technical difficulties"!

Don Campbell
don@sensorfishingrods.com

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Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: Spencer Phipps (---)
Date: March 16, 2021 06:23PM

I was told years ago Blue Dun NCP.

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Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: Peter Yawn (---.mpls.qwest.net)
Date: March 16, 2021 08:59PM

Blue Dun NCP is correct. No idea what brand Loomis used, but I used fuji and thought the match was pretty good.

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Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: Theron @ American Tackle (---)
Date: March 16, 2021 10:37PM

I recently built a buzz worm rod for fishing grass using an American Tackle Bushido CB72/10-20 with American Tackle component to look like exactly what you're talking about. I used ProWrap 434 thread for the project and it came out as close as you can get.

Here is a link to the rod: [www.rodbuilding.org]

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Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: chris c nash (70.40.87.---)
Date: March 17, 2021 02:02AM

Wow, I knew that color looked familiar , I wasn't sure what the 434 Pro Wrap color was but I just looked it up and it's their 'Maui Surf' color which is what I just wrapped my latest surf rod build with . I complemented it with the 'Neon Yellow' 122 for trim rings and I think it looks great .

I'm half color blind and the 413 'Island Lagoon' color looks identical to me to the 434 .

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Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: Donald R Campbell (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: March 17, 2021 02:04PM

Spencer Phipps Wrote:
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> I was told years ago Blue Dun NCP.

Spence,

That is the color of the Fish Hawk thread that I used. I just didn't use any color preserver, before I applied the epoxy. It turned dark blue. Maybe I'll have to give it another thy with color preserver.

Thanks for your reply,
Don

Don Campbell
don@sensorfishingrods.com

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Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: Donald R Campbell (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: March 17, 2021 02:06PM

Peter Yawn Wrote:
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> Blue Dun NCP is correct. No idea what brand Loomis
> used, but I used fuji and thought the match was
> pretty good.

Peter,

It is an older NRX and the thread has a green/blue thread on it. maybe it's just aged?

Don

Don Campbell
don@sensorfishingrods.com

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Re: Thread Color on An Older G. Loomis NRX?
Posted by: Scott Hovanec (---.pitbpa.east.verizon.net)
Date: March 17, 2021 03:47PM

Last one I fixed I used Fuji Blue Dunn NCP. It matched just fine.

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